File:Marco Dente - Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn - 1930.581 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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[edit]Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn
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Marco Dente |
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Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn |
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This composition alludes to The Lament for Adonis by the Greek poet Bion (active about 100 BC). In the poem, Venus, distraught by the death of her lover Adonis, wanders barefoot in the woods and is wounded by brambles. Although Bion implores Venus to “weep no longer in the thickets,” the poem does not describe the moment depicted here when she plucks a thorn from her foot, imaginatively conceived as a vehicle to present a classical female nude. The wide-eyed hare near Venus is an ancient symbol of fertility and sexual desire. |
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| Date | circa 1516 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | engraving | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 26.1 x 16.8 cm (10 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1930.581 |
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| Place of creation | Italy, 16th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Dudley P. Allen Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.581 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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